Showing results for "Susan Anderson" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The plains of the American Mid-West are home to some very fine exponents of the literary craft. Throughout this vast landscape stories seem to be everywhere offering their experiences as works just awaiting the final touches and flourishes of these famed authors. They deliver in very talented ways.

Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds is a rousing, all-original anthology that stands both as a significant achievement in its own right and as a heartfelt tribute to a remarkable writer - and equally remarkable man. A nicely balanced mixture of fiction and reminiscence, Multiverse contains more than a dozen stories and novellas by some of today's finest writers, along with moving reflections by, among others, Anderson's wife, Karen.

A couple packing away items for a white-elephant sale finds it difficult to part with the stroller all three of their boys shared, for it represents the bonds of love they formed with their children through it.

On a particularly sad day in her life, a woman reflects back on the happy sheltered times she spent at play beneath the willow tree of her childhood home.

From Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view - all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.

For months, Andrea Walters had been struggling to finish her next hit song. The recording company she worked for, Great Hill Records, had been pushing her to pump out songs, but none of them felt right. Inspiration drained she needed a change of scenery. She rents a cabin in Canada. Jason Rutter, a well-known movie director needed a fresh place to recharge his batteries and get his groove back. He rents a cabin in Canada. She’s bitter and looking for inspiration. He’s arrogant and doesn’t want to be bothered.